Death of George Floyd Minneapolis Is Bracing For Protests During Derek Chauvin’s Trial. Activists Wanted To Help The City Prepare. buzzfeednews.com - Tasneem Nashrulla The city has spent eight months planning for the high-profile trial, but activists say they didn’t have a voice at the table. Minneapolis is on edge …
Shooting of Tamir Rice Six Years After Tamir Rice, Cleveland Makes New Rules About Policing Kids themarshallproject.org - Abbie VanSickle Critics say a new policy for police encounters with children doesn’t go far enough. More than six years after Cleveland police fatally shot …
AxiosRace & Ethnicity House passes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act verified_publisherAxios - Shawna Chen The House voted 220 to 212 on Wednesday evening to pass a policing bill named for George Floyd, the Black man whose death in Minneapolis last year led …
VoxPolicing The House just passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act verified_publisherVox - Sean CollinsThe House of Representatives has passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Bill of 2021 — legislation Democratic lawmakers believe will reduce police violence against people of color, particularly Black...
NBC NewsRace & Ethnicity White House backs police reform bill named after George Floyd NBC News - By Dareh GregorianThe House passed a version of the bill in 2020, but it died in the then-Republican controlled Senate The Biden administration on Monday threw its support behind a police reform bill pending in the House...
NBC NewsDerek Chauvin 'He choked me out': Others detail allegations of abuse by officer who knelt on George Floyd NBC News - By Janelle GriffithMultiple people who had run-ins with Chauvin before the deadly encounter have accused him of using excessive force. In November 2013, Minneapolis police pulled over LaSean Braddock shortly after midnight...
